Chicken City

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Give Americans tax write-offs for raising or growing their own food. Whether raising chickens, cows, goats, bees, or keeping a garden there is something to be said about food Independence from factory farming as a whole.

Something as simple as owning chickens as an individual house can help provide healthy food not just individual families but also local neighborhoods. Animals like chickens and other fowl also limit the amount of food waste by household drastically.

Bees are also an essential organism that our environment needs and Lord knows we are in danger of losing them. Encouraging people to keep bees through financial reward could help counteract the loss and be populations we’ve seen across the country and keeping gardens. Not only helps provide food for individual families and neighborhoods but also help support these be populations.

Therefore, either rewarding families who partake in these practices, whether whether it’s just a backyard flock or a full-fledged homestead could help not only stimulate the local economies, also encourage food Independence ensuring that people can grow and raise healthy food for their families. This could be done through allowing individuals to be able to write off food and farm and garden supplies or just simply giving them tax breaks individually.

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  1. Permit each household to keep a reasonable number of chickens, quails, and rabbits for egg and meat production without government oversight, contributing to landfill reduction and creating natural fertilizer for home gardens, thereby decreasing reliance on oligarch-owned farmland.

  2. Establish free seed banks offering non-GMO and pesticide-free seeds to individuals who are gardening.

  3. Mandate that urban parkways include trees and shrubs that yield nuts or fruit.

  4. Remove regulations on farmstands in front of residences to eliminate the middleman, leading to fresher food consumption.

  5. Promote community centers with volunteers to teach residents how to grow their own food, offering tax incentives for volunteering. Provide free chickens to those in need and offer courses on raising chickens, quails, and rabbits without government oversight. Highlight the significance of fresh, nutrient-rich food for our health.

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Yes! All that sounds amazing. Thank you sharing :smiley_cat:

One thing I would love to do in the future is be able to produce enough eggs to donate to local food banks. But this economy it’s just so hard to justify not selling extra eggs to pay for feed and shaving. Chicken feed has gotten so expensive and even shaving are not cheap anymore. Any tax insensitive or write could definitely be beneficial to helping myself and others contribute to our communities.

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Growing your own food garden/meat/eggs should be an American right. As long as the animals can be kept in the correct conditions for the safety and health of the animal.

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I’ve been doing all of this over the past four year check out my policy suggestion appreciate any support give by February 2025 I will have planted the largest urban food forest in the United States! Keep up the great work!